The Mathematical Theory of Dynamic Load Balancing in Cellular Networks.

While many interesting dynamic load-balancing schemes have been proposed for efficient use of limited bandwidth and to increase the capacity of congested or hot spots (or cells) in wireless networks, to date, a comprehensive mathematical theory or framework that encompasses all of these schemes does not exist. In this paper, we provide the mathematical theory of dynamic load balancing in cellular networks, which leads to closed-form performance expressions for evaluating the performance of some of the most important dynamic load-balancing strategies proposed in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first generic theoretical framework that can be used to evaluate the performance of many different dynamic load-balancing schemes with simple closed-form results. The accuracy of the results predicted by the theoretical framework was checked against the simulation results provided in the literature for well-known schemes and an excellent agreement was observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]